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[integer@www.god-emil.dk]

>On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:19:37PM -0400, Felix Stalder wrote:
>> Scott Culp, from the Microsoft Security Response Center was, in a sense,
>> right when he told the same newspaper: "This is a general issue, not a
>> Microsoft issue. You can write a virus for any platform."
>
>This is simply false.  If your mail program doesn't run executables
>that it receives, there is no way that anyone can write a virus for
>your platform.
>
>My home computer is running Linux; my mail-retrieval utility is
>Fetchmail, and my mail agent is Mutt.  These programs simply do not
>run executables that they receive.  There is no reason that they
>should.  If someone sends me a program, and I want to run it, I'm
>perfectly capable of doing that myself.  It's completely absurd for a
>mail agent to make that decision for the user.
>
>There are no viruses for Linux because Microsoft Outlook doesn't run
>on Linux.  It's that simple.
>
>Benjamin Geer
>Software Engineer


It's completely absurd for a Software Engineer to make the decision 
apropos `user` 


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